英语听力：自然百科 意大利风情:The Art of the Feast—7

 G: You don't just come here to buy stuff. It's not like a fuel station that you come in and you fuel up the car and you go. You talk to them. They talk to you. Look, there's a chair. You can sit down, if you are tired.  Food here is a living tradition. This shop has been in this family for over 30 years. A: This is obviously a very serious business, the pasta business.

G: It is very serious.

This is the perfect place to get Italian ** tonight. This is like a cathedral, you entering now the inner chamber¹.

G: When you eat spaghetti or when you eat dry pasta, the one comes from the south, that's d* wheat, okay? So the d* wheat contains a lot of protein. These, because in the north daught soil, they just only grow soft wheat, so the soft wheat hasn't got any protein in it, so the outcome won't be d*, and the pasta would be very marshy². Okay, so by putting the eggs, which contain a lot of protein in the eggs, you got to achieve protein texture³. This is like an incredible expression of how actually the land determine what you have on the plates.

1 chamber   

n.房间，寝室；会议厅；议院；会所

参考例句：

• For many,the dentist's surgery remains a torture chamber.对许多人来说，牙医的治疗室一直是间受刑室。
• The chamber was ablaze with light.会议厅里灯火辉煌。

2 marshy   

adj.沼泽的

参考例句：

• In August 1935,we began our march across the marshy grassland. 1935年8月，我们开始过草地。
• The surrounding land is low and marshy. 周围的地低洼而多沼泽。

3 texture   

n.(织物)质地；(材料)构造；结构；肌理

参考例句：

• We could feel the smooth texture of silk.我们能感觉出丝绸的光滑质地。
• Her skin has a fine texture.她的皮肤细腻。